I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

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Fineman reports for NBC and has appeared on most major public affairs shows. Fineman was raised in a Jewish family. He moved to Newsweek in 1980 was named chief political correspondent in 1984 deputy Washington bureau chief in 1993 and senior editor in 1995.

Fineman authored his first book in 2008 The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country. Howard Fineman is an American journalist who is editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group.